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    Moral Corruption

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    Bertunie Berluce Professor Hofer ENC 1101 6 February 2010 Moral corruption results from mankind’s need to satisfy their selfish desires. Ancient philosophers such as Aristotle‚ Plato‚ and Socrates sought out to explain why we do what we consciously know is not the moral ideal. Aristotle defined moral weakness as a person who‚ "knowing that what he does is bad‚ does it as a result of passion." In Flannery O’Connor’s short story‚ “The Life You Save May Be Your Own‚” Mrs. Crater and Mr.Shiftlet’s

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    Franklin Roosevelt once said‚ “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” Voting is particularly important to the American citizen‚ it’s a chance to have your voice heard. According to the why on average do only sixty percent of eligible voters turnout to elections? As the lower class grows voting turnouts decrease because the more money you have the more likely you are to vote and

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    Moral by definition means‚ "of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior". To get a better understanding of what that means here it is in less complicated terms. Moral means having the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. The American citizens are starting to lose our morality. The citizens have started overlooking when the line is crossed and they don’t realize what is wrong and what is right anymore. There are two major places that lacks morality. First‚ the home‚ terrible

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    on how human rights should be. His four main ideas range from complete equality all the way to a very biased system toward the “least advantaged.” It seemed as if John Rawl could not decide which type of human rights he liked the most so he just presented them all. This makes reading his ideas difficult because you cannot tell what his main goal was when writing it. The U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights is expertly written to prevent exclusion of any group. The human rights presented are

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    Why Be Moral ?

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    SHOULD WE BE MORAL??? Being moral is a choice free from both internal and external factors. Unless we have some convincing reasons for being moral‚ there is no point in enquiring what is morally good and what is not. This question concerns reasons than causes. Also one must realize that being moral involves self denial. For example a moral person must not take BRIBE‚ but another person who is not moral and takes bribes may turn out to be in a financially better position. So‚ moral obligations

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    3) Critically assess the claim that people are free to make moral decisions (35) Libertarians support the view that people have free will and so we are free to make moral decisions. For a Libertarian‚ the key evidence for this is the act of decision making in our daily lives. Hume states that “experience is what we see to be true”‚ each human being experiences the feeling of being free to make a decision. If experiencing any other action constitutes it to be true‚ then why not the same for free

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    moral hazard

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    SUMMARY Moral Hazard in Equity Contracts: The Principal-Agent Problem The separation of ownership and control involves moral hazard‚ in that the managers (the agents) may act in their own interest rather than in the interest of the stockholder-owners (the principals) because the managers have less incentive to maximize profits than the stockholder-owners do. Tools to Help Solve the Principal-Agent Problem Production of Information: Monitoring Stockholders engage in a particular type of information

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    Darlings worked on her own research group and with Judith Smentana and her colleagues‚ which they found that people classify issues in different domains. The four domains are moral‚ personal‚ prudential and conventional. The Moral domain covers issues that are seen as fundamentally right or wrong. They are also based on universal qualities‚ which are religiously based. An example for moral domain would be not hitting others or not stealing. The next domain is personal which includes issues that only

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    Moral Dilemmas

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    Moral Dilemma As children we grow up learning the difference between right and wrong from our parents. Later the as we grow older schools and other institutions such as churches instill in is other moral values and ethics. Life often bombards us with many difficult situations and sometimes it is difficult to follow your own personal moral compass. It is particularly difficult when dealing with moral dilemmas. A moral dilemma forces a person to choose between two equally unpleasant things

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    1. What is a moral dilemma? A genuine dilemma is one type of moral problem‚ captured by the expression “You’re damned if you do‚ damned if you don’t.” That is‚ in a dilemma‚ there appears to be no right answer or solution (Dreisbach‚ 2008). Moral dilemmas‚ at the very least‚ involve conflicts between moral requirements (McConnell‚ 2010). 3. The four questions that must be asked to establish if a Dirty Harry Problem exists are: Did the agent know the situation and the choices that it offers

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